Frequent Firefox Updates.. (Solution Use Firefox ESR)

Are you bugged with Firefox update just happening too frequent. I am one of the people who actually uses the option that notify me for updates and I update software when I am not really not working up on something.. I believe in minimalistic things as far Operating systems and Application are concerned. Operating Systems and Applications are there to help you do the work - be it booking a movie ticket/Paying a bill or a full fledged coding work. I belong in second category.

Things important to me:
1. All security patches updated for browser.
2. A Working fast browser

Not important to me. (or things that don't work for me) :
1.  Bloating of software with new features - none of them i would use.
(I actually cant remember any major feature given by Firefox that adds to my productivity - its same browser capabilities that i need)
2. Continuous bloating of the software when running in memory. as of now firefox when used with 1 new tab still uses 150mb of active paged memory.


Other day i found solution to this.
Firefox ESR. [Extended Support Release]

Firefox maintains multiple release channels - Beta update, Release channel and this is one another channel ESR. This channel receives security updates and nothing else for 9 iterations of Firefox release channel updates.

eg. Firefox 17.0 will continue with series 17.0.1(includes security updates in Firefox 18) and .2(includes security updates in Firefox 19) and so on with finally upgrading to Firefox 24.0.2(which would be equivalent to Firefox 26 security updates). Now this numbering can change if there are out of turn important fixes but still these won't be botheration as you can choose when to install and these security updates i have seen to be in Kilobytes at max.

Link to download Firefox ESR in your language/platform here.

You would be surprised to see that this is part of Firefox charter to not offer this release channel directly from there home pages. see last point in here :)


Let me know if this helps or you have found other solutions to this.

Optimization \:)/

Optimization seems to be the keyword for many of the things in the industry, Google asks question and then makes you optimize from n² to nlogn and finally logn. whatever…(lookout for there qns they are really cool though)

I do like things to be optimized, even my life. getting things done with minimum chaos which doesn’t happen normally, Nevertheless, here I am putting some of techniques ,optimizing my 1.4Ghz Computer(yeah it sounds slow, but its actually a fast AMD64 with superb performance).

The first optimizations I normally do just after installing windows is to disable the Animation while minimize and Maximizing windows actually you can see that in the following image, only the checked items I keep on, rest all options I just uncheck for performance.
access this as below —> right click on my computer —> properties —>advanced—>performance settings—>(1st tab itself)
here




I find people going for the costliest hardware they can afford, even when they may not need it. I like optimizing the stuff I already have and using it to max.